HackingStolen CredentialsDelayed DiscoveryIDENTITY_BASICPIILowContained
Lee Enterprises, Incorporated
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Full breach record for Lee Enterprises, Incorporated →Lee Enterprises notified consumers of a data security incident where unauthorized access to employee personal information occurred on or about February 1, 2025. The breach was discovered on February 3, 2025, and FBI was notified. Affected data included names and variable PII. Lee Enterprises engaged cybersecurity specialists and offered IDX identity theft protection services.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday17 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident
A leak claim by qilin about this victim predates this filing by 120 days.View originating leak claim
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Ransomware claims (1)
- bd_2ce2dc9ba2bb0879Leak Siteqilinfiled 2025-02-27(96d gap)Verified
Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_2ca38f39e16972c8New Hampshire State AGfiled 2025-06-03Verified
- bd_5c4976e1eeef5304Maine State AGfiled 2025-06-03Verified by operator
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-06-03-lee-enterprises-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jun 3, 2025
- Raw hash
- 29fbf0cb1eda62fab8c11d1d529196b13311a72170f86b2b9154a79fc85ec4ba
Reporting entity
- Name
- Lee Enterprises, Incorporatednorm: lee
- Domain
- lee.net
Victim entity
- Name
- Lee Enterprises, Incorporatednorm: lee
- Domain
- lee.net
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 3, 2025
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jun 3, 2025
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICPII
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 17 weeks(120 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >45 bdayLeak >90d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.